A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.